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November 29, 2009

Out of the Box Experience – Mac vs PC

I had to set up a couple of new Sony VAIO laptops for a client recently, and I was amazed at the difference in the Out of Box Experience between a premium PC manufacturer and Apple. No, there's nothing technical...
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November 9, 2009

Notes for installing Solaris 10

These notes won't be of too much use to anyone but me, I'm putting them here so that I can refer to them later on when I need to... Install a minimal system. Once installed, find where the CDROM is...
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November 3, 2009

ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog

Thanks Sun, I know you were waiting to announce this once Apple oficially dropped support for ZFS like the proverbial hot potato. ZFS Deduplication You knew this day was coming: ZFS now has built-in deduplication. If you already know what...
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October 28, 2009

HOWTO: Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard

This post is more to gather information that's spread over a few different pages all into one place, so if I need to do it again from scratch I've got an easy reference to follow. I'm running on Mac OS...
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October 19, 2009

Broken LDAP Database on Mac OS X Server

I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from the server. Upon rebooting, things weren't looking too...
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September 1, 2009

How Mac OS X reports drive capacity

Interesting technote to read from Apple - they are changing the way that Mac OS X 10.6 reports the size of a disk. In the past, they have used 1MB=1024kB and 1GB=1024MB, but now in line with standard SI Units,...
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August 19, 2009

Weird iCal Server Issue

I had an issue today where a client's iCal Server logs would show lots of: "Unable to find any record with GUID..." events, constantly. iCal was slowing down for everyone, server-based calendars either took ages to update with changes, or...
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